An incomplete list of UX blogs

Throughout the course of the day I’ll check my usual blogs, some user experience related, some not.  As I was going through my list of blogs today, I realized that there are many that I’m probably missing out on.  So, I chatted with a few folks here at OTO and sent a call for blogs out to the Twitterverse (I’m @banderlin, BTW).  I got back some good responses, so without further ado I give an incomplete, but useful list of user experience blogs.

If you feel that I have missed any, please leave a comment.  I’ll keep this post up-to-date with the categorized information, based on feedback.

User Experience

UXmatters — written by professionals from around the field on various UX topics: design, search, methods, etc.

Boxes and Arrows — users submit stories and ideas to a board of editors; a wide array of topics can be found here

A List Apart — Web magazine –  “explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices”

UX Booth — “The UX Booth is a group that writes about User Experience and offers free Website Usability Reviews that all designers and developers can benefit from”

AskTog — Bruce Tognazzini’s blog — monthly postings that are typically worth the read

UseIt  — Jakob Nielsen’s Web site — the Alertbox column is updated fairly frequently

UIE Brainsparks — Jared Spool’s company blog

HumanFactorsBlog — Two Human Factors PhDs posting “topical news items, academic publications, and historical interest”

User effect – A PhD Usability consultant writes about Usability topics — updated weekly

Usability News – Posts Usability in the news, jobs, events, and calls for papers

Neuromarketing

Neuromarketing Blog  — Roger’s Dooley’s blog — “where brain science and marketing meet”

Visualizations

Flowing Data — A statistics PhD candidate writing about “how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization”

Information Aesthetics – “this weblog explores the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization” — chock full of interesting visualizations

Social Media Design

Bokardo – “A blog about interface design for social web sites and applications”

Mashable – Social media news and information

Other

Seth Godin – Not UX, but always interesting

Noupe – News for web designers and developers

Cognitive Daily — Cognitive psychology blog

Smashing Magazine – “We smash you with the information that will make your life easier.  Really.” — Not UX per se, but chock full of useful information.  Really.